The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1887-02-17

& The penalty imp osed is Imprisonment in
Il the county jail from six to twelve months,
or in the penitentlary from one to three
years.
~ By Mr.. Williamson-For the appoint
ment of stenographers for each judicial
4 district, allowing salary of $1,000 each,
and eight cents mileage, going and com
ling.
~ By Mr.. Latimer, by request-Increasing
the pay of district and county attorneys.
IA Reports of committees were sent up
(, without reading.
House bill, to prevent the gift or sale
or loaning of deadly weapons to minors,
under penalty of from $25 to 500, was
engrossed.
N House bill increasing the salary of the
penitentiary chaplain to $500 was recon
sidered and passed.
House bill providing for the publication
\ of notices of judicial sales was adopted.
Il Mr.. McGaughey had entered a notice to
\ reconsider.
House bill No. 112, preventing the de-
\ struction of any railroad train or injury
\ to railroad property, was taken up on
n second reading.
Mr.. Payne offered an amendment stiking
4 out the clause making imprisonment i'm
\ perative, and inserting "may be impris-
oned." Lost.
Mr.. Gresham offered an amendment
making the offense a ,misdemeanor, sub
ject to from Two to five years imprison-
ment in the peniteutiary.
Mr.. Shields moved to table the amend
ment. Carried. Ayes, As; noes, 81.
The bill was ordered engrossed.
Mr.. Moore's bill, the general school
bill, was postponed till tomorrow, so
substitute offered by Mr.. Johnson could
appear in the journal.
Messrs. Garwood, Battle, Gresham,
Dolen, Mcclure, Baylor, Faubion and
Truitt, were appointed committee on
Moore's capitol resolution.
House bill amending the law so as to do
away with iuries of inquest was defeated,
by striking out the enacting clause.
House bill amending the home exemp-
ton law so to exempt one bale of cotton,
was engrossee.
Also house bill amending the law re-
curing physicians certificates to be re-
corded was engrossed.
House bill No. 1876, amending the law
for the regulation of claims against
counties, and allowing interest on the
claims toward covering the depreciation in
county scrip was under consideration,
when the house adjourned till o'clock.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
House bill making county scrip for
claims allowed by county bear six per
cent. interest," was engrossed.
House bill making working, hunting or
fishing on Sundays subject to fine was
killed.
House bill 129, amending article $780, of
the penal code, defining disorderly houses,
was engrossed.
House bill 100, amending article 431, of
the code of procedure, so as to allow
sworn statements to be taken to aid in
prosecutions when grand juries are not in
Y session, was engrossed.
"A The bill proposed in the morning SEES
sion, by Mr.. Johnson, as substitute for
the Moore educational bill, does not ma
terially change the existing law, but pro-
vides that county commissioners, If they
deem proper, may order an election for
county superintendent in county recelv-
ing not less than $4,000 of the schoo.
fund.
The bill to prevent interruption to rail
road trains and injury to railroad pro-
perty, engrossed during the morning SEES
. sion, provides penalty from 800 to $500
and imprisonment In the county jail
from three to twelve months for intim-
70 idation of employees each days duration
to be separate offense; and fine of not
less than $3.50, and from three to twelve
months imprisonment in the county jail
for iniuring engines and freight, baggage
or passenger cars.
The railroads of the state have been
asked, aud have notified Gov. Ross OF
their willingness, to transport and dis
tribute the seed which is to be furnished
to the drouth section from the agrlcul-
tural department at Washington. they
will cooperate with the state commission
and make the distribution at their own
expense from Fort Worth, as central
point, to over twenty other points among
the drouth sufferers.
Mr.. Gresham, in discussing the bill be-
|, fore the house, to prevent the detention
of railroads and injury to railroad PROF
erty, and more particularly his amend
ment to make such offenses felony, I'M
der penalty of from two to five years =
the penitentiary stated that the courS OF
appeals had decided there was no such
offense known to the law of the state as
engine killing; yet the wheels OF commerce
had been stopped, and millions of dollars
l. of property tied up by strikes IN thu
state. The question was not SO mucf
whether strikes were right as whether
property should be protected by law The
idea that because strikers believe they dc
not have their rights they must TAKE
the law in their own hands
was dangerous stab to government IL
Chicago these corporations had to pay